PUBLIC DEBT

Amendments

Budget: reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (H.R. 4241), H10040 [8NO]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (H.R. 4241), consideration (H. Res. 560), H10544 [17NO]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (S. 1932), S12077 [31OC], S12087, S12095, S12114, S12120, S12132, S12133, S12137, S12143, S12144 [1NO], S12150, S12173, S12185, S12189, S12197, S12202, S12207, S12210, S12211, S12254, S12256, S12269, S12270, S12271, S12272, S12273, S12274, S12275, S12276, S12277, S12278, S12279 [2NO], S12295, S12307, S12310, S12311, S12312, S12314, S12315, S12316, S12317, S12318, S12319, S12321, S12322, S12323, S12324, S12325, S12359, S12360, S12363, S12365, S12366, S12367, S12368, S12369, S12371 [3NO], S14337 [21DE]

———reconciliation of the tax relief provisions of the concurrent resolution (H.R. 4297), H11234, H11249 [8DE]

———reconciliation of the tax relief provisions of the concurrent resolution (S. 2020), S12938, S13034, S13035, S13036, S13037, S13038 [16NO], S13082, S13085, S13090, S13097, S13104, S13113, S13115, S13116, S13119, S13120, S13122, S13123, S13126, S13127, S13130, S13131, S13132, S13133, S13134, S13135, S13136, S13186, S13187, S13206, S13207, S13208, S13209, S13210, S13211, S13212, S13215, S13216, S13218, S13219, S13221, S13222, S13224, S13225, S13226, S13227, S13228, S13229, S13230, S13231, S13232, S13233, S13234, S13235, S13236, S13237 [17NO]

Analyses

Congressional Black Caucus 2006 Budget Proposals, H1650-H1652 [17MR]

Impact on Families of the House Budget Reconciliation Package: Committee on Economics (Joint) Minority Staff, H10633 [17NO]

Appointments

Conferees: S. 1932, Deficit Reduction Act, H12031 [16DE]

———S. 1932, Deficit Reduction Omnibus Reconciliation Act, S13635 [15DE]

Articles and editorials

Missing-in-Action President, H1673 [17MR]

Prayers Made To Protest Budget Cuts, S14096 [20DE]

Rescission Time in Congress, H1673 [17MR]

Bills and resolutions

Budget: constitutional amendment to require balanced (see S.J. Res. 10), S2846 [16MR] (see H.J. Res. 22), H796 [17FE] (see H.J. Res. 58), H5801 [13JY] (see H.J. Res. 74), H11654 [14DE]

———constitutional amendment to require balanced and protect Social Security surpluses (see S.J. Res. 2), S145 [24JA]

———constitutional amendment to require balanced budget and greater accountability in the enactment of tax legislation (see H.J. Res. 6), H79 [4JA]

———extend discretionary spending caps and pay-go for direct spending (see H.R. 523), H348 [2FE] (see H.R. 903), H792 [17FE] (see H.R. 4526), H11652 [14DE]

———public disclosure on treatment of Social Security trust funds (see H.R. 2860), H4355 [9JN]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (see S. 1932), S12006 [27OC] (see H.R. 4241), H9962 [7NO]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (H.R. 4241), consideration (see H. Res. 542), H10144 [9NO] (see H. Res. 560), H10501 [16NO]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (S. 1932), consideration of conference report (see H. Res. 640), H12233 [18DE]

———reconciliation of the tax relief provisions of the concurrent resolution (see S. 2020), S12949 [16NO] (see H.R. 4297), H10156 [10NO]

———reconciliation of the tax relief provisions of the concurrent resolution (H.R. 4297), consideration (see H. Res. 588), H11219 [7DE]

———reduce budget deficits by restoring budget enforcement and strengthening fiscal responsibility (see S. 19), S142 [24JA] (see S. 851), S3897 [19AP]

———require balanced and protect Social Security surpluses (see S. 568), S2245 [8MR]

———revise the concurrent resolution on the budget (see H. Con. Res. 214), H6327 [21JY]

———simplify annual concurrent resolutions on the budget and budget for emergencies (see H.R. 845), H718 [16FE]

Congressional Budget Act: preserve budget surpluses until legislation is enacted significantly extending the solvency of Social Security and Medicare trust funds (see H.R. 116), H75 [4JA]

Farm Security and Rural Investment Act: extend appropriations and spending programs and provide an additional extension if implementing legislation is not submitted for World Trade Organization Doha Development Agenda Round (see H.R. 4332), H10226 [15NO]

Foreign policy: clarify conditions for U.S. to become a signatory to any multilateral trade agreement resulting from World Trade Organization Doha Development Agenda Round (see S. Con. Res. 55), S10724 [29SE] (see H. Res. 577), H11035 [18NO]

Government: ceiling (see H.J. Res. 47), H2743 [2MY]

House of Representatives: require that excess amounts from Members' official allowances be applied to deficit or Federal debt reduction (see H.R. 267), H137 [6JA] (see H.R. 1273), H1416 [14MR]

Members of Congress: prevent automatic salary adjustments following a fiscal year in which there is a Federal budget deficit (see H.R. 223), H78 [4JA]

———reduce pay following any fiscal year in which there is a Federal deficit (see H.R. 1980), H2735 [28AP]

Social Security: impose a tax on the amount of wages in excess of the contribution and benefit base and extend budget pay-as-you-go requirements (see H.R. 2472), H3556 [18MY]

———invest trust funds in marketable interest-bearing securities and insured certificates of deposit, and protect trust funds from public debt limit (see H.R. 219), H78 [4JA]

———provide for investment and protection of surpluses (see H.R. 3913), H8387 [27SE]

Trust Fund Administration: establish to invest certain Federal trust fund revenues in non-Federal Government debt instrument index funds (see S. 1730), S10233 [20SE]

Conference reports

Deficit Reduction Act (S. 1932), H12641-H12737 [18DE]

Letters

Deficit Reduction Act: David Ward, American Council of Education, S14082 [20DE]

———Larry Snyder, Catholic Charities USA (organization), H10638 [17NO]

———National Council of Churches, H10637 [17NO]

———Nicholas DiMarzio and John Ricard, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, E2447 [6DE]

———William S. Skylstad, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, S14081 [20DE]

Deficit Reduction Omnibus Reconciliation Act: Mark S. Hanson, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, S12145 [1NO]

Veterans health care funding: Robert E. Wallace, VFW, H10124 [9NO]

Lists

Extraneous provisions in S. 1932, Deficit Reduction Omnibus Reconciliation Act, S12213 [2NO], S12342-S12344 [3NO], S12522 [8NO]

Extraneous provisions in S. 2020, Tax Relief Act, S13141 [17NO]

Organizations opposing S. 1932, Deficit Reduction Act, S14076 [20DE]

Motions

Budget: reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (S. 1932), S12291, S12292, S12301, S12302, S12307, S12309, S12313, S12325 [3NO], S13522, S13523, S13527, S13528, S13536, S13544 [14DE], H10749 [17NO], H11959 [16DE]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (S. 1932), conference report, S14015 [19DE], S14204 [21DE]

———reconciliation of the tax relief provisions of the concurrent resolution (H.R. 4297), H11262 [8DE]

———reconciliation of the tax relief provisions of the concurrent resolution (S. 2020), S13080, S13101, S13102, S13103, S13104, S13114, S13123, S13124, S13125, S13126, S13128, S13129, S13131, S13132, S13133, S13134 [17NO]

Press releases

Jim Wallis and Faith Leaders Call for a Moral Budget and Urge Congress To Say `No' to Social Cuts That Pay for Tax Cuts: Sojourners (publication), H10638 [17NO]

Remarks in House

Budget: allocation of funds, H2638, H2641-H2643 [27AP], H8922, H8923, H8924, H8974, H8977 [19OC], H8988, H8989, H8990 [20OC], H12234-H12241 [18DE]

———constitutional amendment to require balanced, H1580 [16MR], H4924, H4925 [22JN]

———constitutional amendment to require balanced (H.J. Res. 22), H4066 [25MY]

———deficit, H176 [25JA], H201, H226 [26JA], H383, H387 [8FE], H508 [9FE], H618 [15FE], H691-H699 [16FE], H1271 [10MR], H1512, H1571, H1580, H1608, H1609 [16MR], H1665, H1666, H1673, H1682 [17MR], H1756 [5AP], H1974 [14AP], H2537 [26AP], H2639-H2645 [27AP], H2696-H2699 [28AP], H2945-H2949, H2973 [4MY], H3019 [5MY], H3093-H3095 [10MY], H3759, H3760 [23MY], H4063-H4070 [25MY], H4564 [16JN], H4714, H4718 [17JN], H4868-H4874 [21JN], H4903, H4977-H4983 [22JN], H5258 [28JN], H5748, H5777 [13JY], H5804 [14JY], H8578, H8630 [29SE], H8729 [6OC], H8851 [18OC], H8952, H8958, H8966, H8967, H8968, H8969, H8970, H8971 [19OC], H9079-H9082, H9090-H9092 [25OC], H9412 [28OC], H9547-H9553 [2NO], H9643, H9644 [4NO], H10008 [8NO], H10150 [10NO], H10192, H10217 [15NO], H10377-H10383 [16NO], H10507, H10628, H10633, H10636, H10639, H10641, H10644 [17NO], H11080-H11085 [6DE], H11195, H11196, H11199 [7DE], H11272, H11275, H11319-H11321 [8DE], H11869 [15DE], H11963 [16DE], H12159-H12162 [17DE], H12235, H12238 [18DE]

———extend discretionary spending caps and pay-go for direct spending, H693, H694 [16FE]

———extend discretionary spending caps and pay-go for direct spending (H.R. 903), H4066 [25MY]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution, H9547-H9553 [2NO], H9558, H9605, H9606, H9609, H9622-H9627, H9633-H9638 [3NO], H9643, H9674, H9675, H9683, H9685-H9691 [4NO], E2263 [3NO]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (H.R. 4241), H9697, H9698, H9699, H9700, H9701, H9938, H9946-H9948, H9954-H9960 [7NO], H9966, H9967, H9968, H9969, H9994, H9997-H10012, H10023-H10036 [8NO], H10043, H10044, H10045, H10046, H10047, H10048, H10112-H10129, H10134, H10138-H10142 [9NO], H10147, H10148, H10149, H10150, H10152, H10153 [10NO], H10192, H10215, H10217 [15NO], H10230, H10231, H10232, H10233, H10234, H10377-H10383 [16NO], H10506, H10507, H10508, H10545-H10646 [17NO], H10912 [18NO], E2319 [9NO], E2404, E2408, E2409, E2410, E2412, E2413, E2426, E2430, E2434, E2435 [18NO]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (H.R. 4241), consideration (H. Res. 560), H10531-H10534, H10537-H10545 [17NO]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (S. 1932), H10646 [17NO], H11074, H11080, H11083, H11084, H11086, H11087 [6DE], H11269, H11273, H11276 [8DE], H11338, H11490-H11492 [13DE], H11959, H12034 [16DE], H12155-H12157, H12160 [17DE], E2443, E2447 [6DE], E2486 [8DE], E2504 [12DE], E2561, E2576 [17DE]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (S. 1932), conference report, H12269-H12277 [18DE], E2634, E2638, E2641, E2645, E2649 [22DE]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (S. 1932), consideration of conference report (H. Res. 640), H12233-H12241 [18DE]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (S. 1932), insert H.R. 4241 language in lieu, H10749 [17NO]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (S. 1932), motion to instruct conferees, H11959-H11968 [16DE]

———reconciliation of the tax relief provisions of the concurrent resolution (H.R. 4297), H11087 [6DE], H11115, H11116, H11194-H11199, H11213, H11214 [7DE], H11225, H11226, H11234-H11264, H11269, H11273, H11275, H11318, H11320, H11322 [8DE], H12054, H12161 [17DE], E2511 [13DE], E2532, E2533, E2538 [14DE], E2547 [15DE], E2562 [17DE]

———reconciliation of the tax relief provisions of the concurrent resolution (H.R. 4297), consideration (H. Res. 588), H11227-H11234 [8DE]

———reconciliation process, H9079-H9090 [25OC], H9281 [27OC]

———reduce budget deficits by restoring budget enforcement and strengthening fiscal responsibility, H3699 [23MY], H8252 [22SE]

———reinstate pay-as-you-go requirement, H1553, H1558, H1562, H1597 [16MR], H2945, H2946 [4MY], H9022 [20OC], H10048 [9NO]

Bush, President: evaluation of economic policies, H6558-H6562 [26JY]

———State of the Union Message, H339 [2FE]

Congress: accomplishments of the 109th Congress, H12174 [18DE]

Congressional Black Caucus: budget priorities, H1573-H1576, H1581, H1582, H1584, H1595, H1596 [16MR], H1642-H1653 [17MR]

Democratic Party: national agenda, H3756-H3761 [23MY], H4174-H4179 [7JN]

Economy: importance of job creation, H5745, H5746, H5748 [13JY], H9438 [1NO], H11193-H11199 [7DE]

———national objectives priority assignments, H824-H830 [1MR], H948 [3MR], H1580, H1583 [16MR], H2946, H2963-H2969 [4MY], H3063, H3065 [10MY], H4300 [9JN], H4408 [14JN], H5709 [12JY], H5889-H5895 [14JY], H5938, H5952-H5954 [18JY], H5969 [19JY], H8062 [15SE], H9622-H9627 [3NO], E481 [17MR]

Foreign policy: clarify conditions for U.S. to become a signatory to any multilateral trade agreement resulting from World Trade Organization Doha Development Agenda Round (H. Res. 577), H11270 [8DE]

Government: ceiling, H1582 [16MR], H1682 [17MR], H4175, H4176, H4179 [7JN], H4903 [22JN], H5896, H5897 [14JY]

———reform to create an integrated and unified domestic policy, H8836-H8842 [17OC]

Postal Service: use the Civil Service Retirement System savings for the Postal Service's unfunded health care liability and maintain military service retirement credits costs, H6544 [26JY]

Republican Party: national agenda, H2626 [27AP], H8729 [6OC]

Social Security: budget treatment of trust funds, H176 [25JA], H692 [16FE], H1738, H1755 [5AP], H1926 [13AP], H2634, H2644 [27AP], H2698-H2701 [28AP], H2749 [3MY], H4902 [22JN], H6111, H6114 [20JY]

———invest trust funds in marketable interest-bearing securities and insured certificates of deposit, and protect trust funds from public debt limit (H.R. 219), E6 [4JA]

———privatization proposals, H2087-H2092 [14AP]

———reform, H2087-H2092 [14AP]

———restore solvency, H6209 [21JY]

Remarks in Senate

Appropriations: legislative process relative to Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts proposals, S10014-S10016 [14SE]

Budget: allocation of funds, S11653-S11656 [20OC], S11736 [21OC], S11779 [25OC]

———constitutional amendment to require balanced and protect Social Security surpluses (S.J. Res. 2), S366 [24JA]

———constitutional amendment to require balanced (S.J. Res. 10), S2856 [16MR]

———deficit, S1107 [8FE], S1586-S1588 [17FE], S2061 [4MR], S2592 [14MR], S4488-S4491, S4497, S4504, S4507-S4510 [28AP], S7368-S7371 [24JN], S11617-S11620 [20OC], S11756-S11758 [24OC], S12080, S12087-S12091 [1NO], S14016, S14017 [19DE], S14078 [20DE]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (H.R. 4241), S13326-S13328 [18NO]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (S. 1932), S12039, S12041 [28OC], S12065-S12074 [31OC], S12079-S12099, S12106-S12122, S12144, S12146 [1NO], S12149-S12219, S12282-S12284 [2NO], S12285-S12287, S12291-S12346 [3NO], S12375, S12376 [4NO], S12443 [7NO], S12516, S12522 [8NO], S13435 [12DE], S13647 [15DE]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (S. 1932), conference report, S13984, S14015-S14024, S14025 [19DE], S14073-S14084, S14086, S14096-S14108, S14111, S14113, S14114, S14116-S14120, S14123, S14132, S14146-S14160 [20DE], S14200-S14221, S14284, S14298, S14299, S14312 [21DE]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (S. 1932), conference report—motion to proceed, S14015 [19DE]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (S. 1932), conference report—unanimous-consent agreement, S14160 [20DE]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (S. 1932), motion to instruct conferees, S13460, S13461, S13469-S13471, S13478-S13483, S13485, S13491-S13494 [13DE], S13521-S13524, S13527-S13531, S13536-S13546 [14DE], S13630-S13635 [15DE]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (S. 1932), unanimous-consent agreement, S13507 [13DE]

———reconciliation of the tax relief provisions of the concurrent resolution (H.R. 4297), unanimous-consent request, S14289 [21DE]

———reconciliation of the tax relief provisions of the concurrent resolution (S. 2020), S12923-S12934, S12936-S12940 [16NO], S13072-S13146 [17NO], S13339, S13344, S13352-S13354 [18NO]

———reconciliation of the tax relief provisions of the concurrent resolution (S. 2020), unanimous-consent agreement, S13092 [17NO]

———reconciliation process, S9712-S9715 [7SE], S9911 [12SE], S11653, S11656 [20OC], S11779, S11780 [25OC], S11855-S11857, S11873, S11874 [26OC], S11969-S11971 [27OC]

———reduce budget deficits by restoring budget enforcement and strengthening fiscal responsibility, S2422-S2424 [10MR], S11606 [20OC]

———reduce budget deficits by restoring budget enforcement and strengthening fiscal responsibility (S. 19), S111, S137 [24JA]

———reduce budget deficits by restoring budget enforcement and strengthening fiscal responsibility (S. 851), S3957 [19AP], S4038 [20AP]

———reinstate pay-as-you-go requirement, S2796-S2806 [16MR], S12091-S12093, S12095, S12096 [1NO], S12217 [2NO], S12291 [3NO], S13115, S13121, S13122, S13126 [17NO]

———require balanced and protect Social Security surpluses (S. 568), S2422-S2424 [10MR]

———status report, S6011 [26MY], S7804 [30JN], S9274 [28JY], S10228 [20SE], S10422 [26SE], S10715 [29SE], S11291 [7OC], S13345 [18NO]

———treatment of any budget surpluses, S14016 [19DE]

Democratic Policy Committee: oversight hearings on Social Security privatization proposals, S553 [26JA]

Economy: national objectives priority assignments, S1067-S1070 [8FE], S2628-S2630 [14MR], S10203-S10205 [20SE]

Foreign policy: clarify conditions for U.S. to become a signatory to any multilateral trade agreement resulting from World Trade Organization Doha Development Agenda Round, S13136 [17NO]

———importance of agricultural negotiations in World Trade Organization Doha Development Agenda Round, S13336 [18NO]

Government: ceiling, S2917, S2918, S2934 [17MR]

Medicare: ensure that savings from reducing overpayments to Medicare Advantage plans is reserved for deficit reduction and to strengthen the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, S2937 [17MR]

Republican Party: national agenda, S4226 [26AP], S10203-S10205 [20SE]

Senate: legislative priorities, S376 [25JA]

———suspend time limitations on debate of budget reconciliation legislation that causes or increases a deficit, S12312 [3NO]

Social Security: budget treatment of trust funds, S2676-S2678, S2685, S2686 [15MR], S4509, S4510 [28AP]

———privatization proposals, S547-S550, S553 [26JA]

———restore solvency before allowing new tax cuts or mandatory spending unless paid for or approved by a supermajority, S2668-S2676, S2680-S2683, S2692 [15MR]

Taxation: extend certain expiring provisions to provide deficit reduction and to provide tax relief for the victims of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma, S13072-S13080 [17NO]

Telecommunications: allocate certain excess proceeds from the spectrum auction to deficit reduction, emergency communications interoperability, and assistance to disaster-affected coastal States, S12310 [3NO]

Trust Fund Administration: establish to invest certain Federal trust fund revenues in non-Federal Government debt instrument index funds (S. 1730), S10235-S10237 [20SE]

Reports filed

Consideration of Conference Report on S. 1932, Deficit Reduction Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 640) (H. Rept. 109-363), H13188 [22DE]

Consideration of H.R. 4241, Deficit Reduction Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 542) (H. Rept. 109-281), H10144 [9NO]

———Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 560) (H. Rept. 109-303), H10501 [16NO]

Consideration of H.R. 4297, Tax Relief Extension Reconciliation Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 588) (H. Rept. 109-330), H11219 [7DE]

Deficit Reduction Act: Committee of Conference (S. 1932) (H. Rept. 109-362), H13188 [22DE]

———Committee on the Budget (House) (H.R. 4241) (H. Rept. 109-276), H9962 [7NO]

Deficit Reduction Omnibus Reconciliation Act: Committee on the Budget (Senate) (S. 1932), S12006 [27OC]

Economic Report of the President: Committee on Economics (Joint) (H. Rept. 109-353), H12047 [16DE]

Tax Relief Act: Committee on Finance (Senate) (S. 2020), S12948 [16NO]

Tax Relief Extension Reconciliation Act: Committee on Ways and Means (House) (H.R. 4297) (H. Rept. 109-304), H10908 [17NO]

Rulings of the Chair

Budget: reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (H.R. 4241), consideration (H. Res. 560), H10531 [17NO]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (S. 1932), S12089 [1NO], S12302, S12307, S12309, S12325 [3NO]

———reconciliation of the concurrent resolution (S. 1932), conference report, S14205 [21DE]

———reconciliation of the tax relief provisions of the concurrent resolution (S. 2020), S13102, S13103, S13104, S13123, S13124, S13125, S13126, S13127, S13128, S13129, S13131, S13132, S13133, S13134 [17NO]

Statements

Reconciliation of the Concurrent Budget Resolution: Representative Edwards, H9605 [3NO]

Summaries

Committee on Finance (Senate) Contribution to Budget Reconciliation Legislation, S12070-S12073 [31OC]

Congressional Black Caucus budget proposal for 2006-2010, H1648 [17MR]

Tables

Congressional Black Caucus 2006 budget restorations and increases, H1653 [17MR]

Texts of

H. Res. 560, consideration of H.R. 4241, Deficit Reduction Act, H10531 [17NO]

H. Res. 588, consideration of H.R. 4297, Tax Relief Extension Reconciliation Act, H11227 [8DE]

H. Res. 640, consideration of conference report on S. 1932, Deficit Reduction Act, H12233 [18DE]

H.R. 4241, Deficit Reduction Act, H10545-H10617 [17NO]

H.R. 4297, Tax Relief Extension Reconciliation Act, H11234-H11237 [8DE]

S. 19, Fiscal Responsibility for a Sound Future Act, S210 [24JA]

S. 1932, Deficit Reduction Omnibus Reconciliation Act, H10646-H10749 [17NO]

S. Con. Res. 55, clarify conditions for U.S. to become a signatory to any multilateral trade agreement resulting from World Trade Organization Doha Development Agenda Round, S10761 [29SE]

S.J. Res. 2, constitutional amendment to require balanced budget and protect Social Security surpluses, S366 [24JA]

S.J. Res. 10, constitutional amendment to require balanced budget, S2857 [16MR]